Well, you must forgive me for introducing too many extraneous topics, lol. But I do persist in reiterating my thought on VALUE. Americans are pre-prog...
Well, if you really want my own opinion, I do find the entire focus on 'the self' as the basis of knowledge very solipsistic. Regarding the arguments ...
Right. But that's ONLY true if you interpret 'growth' as the American rich and power mongers want you to define it. What America COULD have done was e...
Well sure. And as Russians will point out, there are far more liars, thieves, swindlers, and scoundrels here, and you may be surprised, if you look it...
That's not how they see it. I explained the view from Russell, which is that language is descriptive. You discussed Wittgenstein as a game theorist, h...
That's not entirely fair. Many of those now running the Chinese Communist party and some of the Russian oil oligarchs can cite extremely poor families...
Oh , I see what you are asking. If a sentence has nouns for both a subject and object, and for simplicity one considers both to be references to physi...
You don't need pronouns in Latin. It means, "I think, therefore I am." Which is the source of the problem, because what it should say is "dubio ergo s...
The problem you have is that Marxist theory did not predict what would happen after communism raised the standard of living of the proletariat to such...
I think what you are interested in, if you truly mean valency as it is defined in chemistry, is some kind of weighted probabilistic logic. https://en....
That's not quite correct. The USA was founded on the basis that the people living on this continent were not accorded the separate and equal station t...
Well, as I say, it is not really me you are critiquing, it is the Jeffersonian definition of natural rights, and apparently, the Lockean social contra...
In ethics, consequences are now generally considered more important. However the specific nature of 'consequence' itself can be difficult to define, d...
If you are wishing an academic exploration of the topic, the most recent is probably this https://www.amazon.com/Terrible-Love-War-James-Hillman/dp/01...
the PROBLEM is that you could equally imagine humans living in total misery for a thousand years, so any conclusions you draw from that are totally me...
Homer in fact showed glory to be glamorous but pointless, and simply results in a long ordeal for everyone, which is why the Iliad ends with the victo...
What a hyperbole, lol. I did meet a feminist psychoanalyst who used Marcuse t6 argue for the ontological power of men over women, other than that I ne...
The reason for the distinction is that Marxism is not a political ideal, as most people believe, but a process of dialectical materialism. Marx himsel...
Again, religion has three main components: belief, theology, and ritual. The theology depends whether an individual's belief system can accept enough ...
It's not really about 'buying into' anything. As with all scientific models, it is only a model, and its value is in how well it helps explain states ...
It transpires only someth9ing like 3% of the blind were never able to see at all, so most do definitely dream in images, and it remains possible that ...
Not now, but at the time of the ancient Greeks, there was less specialization, so a great deal more fell into the domain of philosophy to explain. Mos...
] The first sentence is the SUBJECT of the analysis which directs the investigation to the thesis. The Kantian method and Hegelian dialectic are consi...
When stocks are going up, it's called a 'bull market', When it's going down, it's called a 'bear market.' That is why many bulls and bears have been p...
Peevish? lol. What I did was write a summary, as requested, in 1,500 words. Now comments are helping refine it, rather than challenge me on ideas that...
Sure, here is a simple example analytic: what noise do animals make? analytic thesis: dogs bark analytic antithesis: but cats meow synthesis: differen...
I actually didn't bother to learn the specific history of the girl, but it seems to me mostly to be advertising for the artist at this time, and of li...
I think the distinction is whether the art was created first, or whether in the case you discuss, the commission was first. If the commission was firs...
that might be true, but the model for it was Helios, which as I say, is why the crown looks like sun rays. What happened is that America WANTED it to ...
Yes, that does open a bit of an epistemological problem doesn't it? From Locke's perspective, the reason we have freedom of choice is because we have ...
Perhaps the Hegelian perspective is useful to you. Analytic thought produces a thesis. The existence of the thesis means that there is an antithesis. ...
I think a lot of modern epistemology holds the same. Wittgenstein also liked Leibniz, but I haven't read him and I don't know what he says about knowl...
I think its a little more complicated than that. For example, as I am almost 60, I have no desire to marry again or reproduce. However, I still occasi...
lol, I think it is exactly the other way around. But the classical thought section is not as popular as the Dr. Oz self help aisle. So if it were a ma...
I guess what happened was that the bull and bear I saw were on loan from somewhere, and removed a long time before the Internet started. If so, the ne...
It's gone!! The bowling green bear which used to stand where the girl is has been totally eradicated from public memory. I can't even find a picture o...
I'm in shock. There used to be a bear there. and it was one of three pairs. The pair on one had the bull winning, on the other side had the bear winni...
There was another example in NYC, which is a ceiling portrait in the Rockefeller center designed to present a trompe de l'oeil of American workers in ...
Well, what I can do is extend their thinking to current situations. For example, I recently illustrated how Trump's idea of 'truth' can be meaningful ...
For me, although it was a little reminiscent of the Reichskulturkammer, I was really impressed by this sculpture after I saw it in person. Pictures do...
The problem with that, sir, is that I don't actually regard my own opinion on philosophical matters is that important. And while other people may feel...
I don't really think it constitutes philosophy. I just cite the two main examples why the USA doesn't deserve the rights it so arrogantly considers ir...
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